Lewis v. Commonwealth

CULLEN, Commissioner.

Willie Lewis appeals from a judgment imposing a two-year penitentiary sentence upon a conviction of willfully and maliciously shooting at or into a dwelling house, KRS 435.170(4).

The testimony of the prosecuting witness was that Willie fired a shotgun blast that hit her house near the front door, after he had threatened to kill her if she would not admit him to the house and had broken a window with the barrel of the shotgun. This evidence was sufficient to sustain the conviction.

In the selection of the jury it became necessary to summon additional jurors. Willie…